The conflict in Syria, which combines civil war, jihadism, regional and international war, began ten years ago. The stakes of this conflict, the most important of the 21st century and the most brutal, could be summed up as follows: the maintenance in power of Bashar El Assad. Five years after "Bashar, me or chaos", Antoine Vitkine returns to the course of the 54-year-old dictator and the way he conducts his war to maintain power. He also reveals the behind-the-scenes geopolitical battle that Syria has been the object of since 2011.